Batwoman (2019) s01e20 Episode Script

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[narrator] Previously on
Batwoman:
Tommy said that this book holds the key
to killing Batwoman.
And I want her very, very dead.
[Mouse] Lucius Fox wrote
the entire journal in code.
[Julia] You did it. You know what it says.
Why aren't you happier about this?
The book contains
the secret to killing you.
These are Lucius Fox's glasses.
They unlock the code.
Let Luke and Julia go and they're yours.
Go bring me Tommy so he can tell me
where to find
a little green rock called kryptonite.
I have to do this.
I have to stop you.
You won't be able to.
- You'd be surprised.
- Kryptonite? Why do you have that?
It was Bruce Wayne's.
He lost hope. I never will.
Keep it. I have the courage
that you'll never have to use it.
Batwoman's in cell block D.
No. Please, don't.
[alarm wailing]
[all shouting]
Psychotic escapees are all over this city
right now thanks to you.
Let this serve as your warning.
If I see you again, it's war.
[woman on pa] This is the Burnley Line,
bound for Central Gotham.
[crowd murmuring]
[man] Knife! Hey! Hey!
- Go.
- [screams]
[Jacob] Move! Move! Move! Out of the way!
[commuters screaming]
Knife! Knife! Knife! Get away from the trains!
Get away from the trains!
Drop the knives.
- [shouts]
- [commuters shouting]
Why? So you can send me back there?
These are innocent people!
I don't care!
I told you to stay in the car.
Who the hell was that?
I have no idea.
[Vesper] Rumor has it the machete-wielding
maniac was Arkham escapee
and college football phenom
Tim "The Titan" Teslow.
Since apparently, the Crows' commander
couldn't take down
this hulking Gotham Goliaths' tight end
with a 12-gauge,
let's hope Batwoman has a slingshot
in her Batbelt.
Have you seen this?
The Crows have an app now.
Darling, my light.
It's hard enough to see
out of Lucius Fox's glasses.
You just push the button
and the ants come marching in.
Anyone with a phone can use it,
client or not.
Which means anyone with a phone
can turn us over with the click of a screen.
We gotta get out of Gotham, Alice.
[bats screeching]
What is that?
The bats! What is happening?
Why are they here?
Because bats eat rats, Alice.
And that's what we are down here.
We're rats living among rats.
You promised me that we would start
a new life together, outside of all this.
But we can't do that
if the Crows find us and kill us.
How is one supposed to start anew
when all that is old still haunts her?
Is that the Alice you want
to frolic beside in our Wonderland?
Or do you wish your Alice to be full,
and complete and happy?
Hmm?
You know that's what I want.
Then patience,
until I can figure out where to find this rock
that penetrates the Batsuit.
A hiding spot Lucius Fox
forgot to mention in his journal.
[Tommy] Alice!
What the hell is this?
You call this This a face?
- Really? This?
- I mean
I don't see the problem.
I got you the journal.
I helped you decode it.
Because of me, you know how
to kill your sister, Batwoman!
It's true.
But I am not about to spend
the rest of my life
looking like the bastard
that couldn't get the rods
in the nuclear reactor in time!
Give me a face I can wear.
[laughing]
That's good.
Shoot her dead, that'll get you
your face, you stupid idiot.
It's quite all right, Mouse.
I can take a note.
Wait, what?
No. You can't actually be listening to him.
I owe him a face.
Which means I'll need to go
to the university morgue for better materials.
Skin, thread, scalpels, you know the drill.
Back soon.
Alice
[Luke] You are holding the only shard
of kryptonite on the planet.
Why was this in a puddle in the Batcave?
Safekeeping.
Bruce was holding on to it for a friend.
Let me guess, tights, cape,
big S on his chest.
Yo, how do you know that?
Lucky guess.
So why fish it out of a perfectly good
hiding space?
Alice knows this can penetrate the Batsuit
along with whatever else my dad
wrote about it in his journal.
Hamilton's coil accelerator is defunct,
you melted down Bruce's rail gun
and once I figure out how to destroy this,
Batwoman is as good as invincible.
Unless you know something I don't.
Nope. Go to town.
Okay.
Hey. I thought we were bat-huddling
over this Titan Teslow psycho.
"Bat-huddling" isn't a thing.
And I'm off to destroy an alien mineral.
Just another day on the Bat team?
Pretty much.
So Tim "The Titan" Teslow,
obviously you know the basics, right?
Just remind me again?
He was pretty much the Goliaths'
best tight end of all time.
A TD every game, over a hundred catches
and a thousand yards every season.
Let's not assume I know what any of
those words mean, because I'm a lesbian.
He was really, really good. And brutal.
As in gladiator-esque.
Turns out, there's a not-so-secret secret
to all of his success.
- Say it with me, steroids.
- Sexy cheerleaders.
Point being,
it all came to a head during
a playoff game against the Cougars.
Titan didn't like a call and went straight up
Mortal Kombat finishing move
against the official.
He snapped his neck on the field
in front of a stadium full of people.
Oof.
Since when did you become a Goliaths fan?
Since Titan's brother, Apollo,
started dating Selu Corova.
Apollo's the Goliaths' running back.
You seriously need to get out
of that Batcave.
I seriously need to suit up
and talk to this brother.
- Might know Titan's whereabouts.
- Are we sure that's the best idea?
I do, Ms. Batwoman-Doesn't-Get-a-Sick-Day.
I said that before Commander Kane
promised if he ever saw Batwoman again,
it'd be war.
I feel like Gotham's got enough
Greek tragedy happening at the moment.
You don't know my dad like I do.
I do, though, because he's my dad too.
Not what I meant. Just,
I know how he gets and I know
ways of getting around him.
Like when teenage Kate wanted a Crows SUV,
he said no, you took one anyway
and he had you arrested?
Or when he said no parties in the penthouse
and you had one anyway,
and he called the police commissioner
to land a helicopter on the roof
to have you arrested?
I can keep going.
If I can stop Titan before he kills anyone else,
then my dad and the rest of the Crows,
they might start seeing Batwoman
as one of the good guys.
Jacob Kane will never see
a vigilante as one of the good guys.
Jacob Kane has never met a vigilante
who is also his daughter.
If I can start changing the way
that he sees Batwoman
then maybe one day I can
come clean about who Batwoman really is.
[Don Elektron's "Go Go Getter" playing]
I'm a winner
I'm a, I'm a winner
Independent
Make my own moola
I'm a winner
My own breadwinner
Girl in the mirror
A go, go-getter
Go, go-getter
Go, Go-getter
Professor Darby, I presume?
A go, go-getter
You.
For a man who plays with rocks all day,
this must be very exciting.
But it doesn't have to be.
I am looking for a little green nugget
called kryptonite.
- Kryptonite.
- Mm.
You mean kaolinite.
Do I, or do I mean kryptonite?
Maybe kimberlite?
Or kyanite?
Or, um, charoite?
The head of the Geology Department
and dumb as
Professor Darby, your name was written
beside it in a journal.
Glows green, cuts through anything.
A mineral with a natural
green luminescence
and strong covalent bonds
with that kind of cutting power.
Actually, I did analyze something
with those properties once.
It wasn't called kryptonite.
It was some kind of rare meteor rock.
There you go. Hand it over.
I can't, it was sent back
to its owner, Lucius Fox.
Lucius Fox is dead.
It just says Lucius Fox, Wayne Enterprises,
Gotham City.
And what do you suppose I do?
Just waltz into Wayne and ask for it nicely?
I don't know, okay?
It's not here. You need to go talk to them.
Well, then I suppose that's what I'll do.
Until then, it's probably best
nobody knows I was here.
And with that
I believe the Geology Department
needs a new head.
Still hasn't checked in
since you looked 10 seconds ago.
Sorry if the idea of my dad killing my sister
is somewhat of a concern to me.
Her suit is bulletproof.
Besides, Kate knows what she's doing.
No, Kate thinks she knows what she's doing,
which can be worse than most people
not knowing what they're doing.
Yeah, me included, apparently.
Look, I've tried acetic,
sulfuric and hydrochloric.
All non-reactive.
I can see why this thing
can penetrate the Batsuit.
Have you tried crushing it?
With what, a hammer?
- I said I was nervous.
- All right.
[rock music playing]
I like the pressure
I like the pressure
Not afraid of the storm
'Cause it's all mine
[Batwoman]
I'm exhausted just watching you.
Who's there?
Someone who thinks you're pretty bold
running bleachers with Titan on the prowl.
If this is about season tickets,
I can't help you.
If this is about my brother,
I can't help you.
I guess my question is are you helping him?
You're the only family he has left.
I don't think he sees it that way.
Not after I testified against him
- and got him sent away to Arkham.
- You did the right thing.
- Got a dangerous psychopath off the streets.
- He's not a psychopath.
- Tell that to the ref he murdered on the field.
- He wanted to win,
so much that he was willing
to have his soul beaten out of him.
Every practice, every game,
every hit to the head.
You know he used to walk
the neighborhood kids
to the bus to make sure they were safe?
Ten years later, he ripped a ref's spine
out of his neck.
- This game turned him into a monster.
- Then help me make sure he doesn't die one.
Make sure he gets the help he needs.
Tell me where to find him.
[blade scraping on metal]
Apollo! You betrayed me!
This is the part where you run.
[shouts]
You abandoned me to the prison.
Now this one will be yours.
[grunts]
I'm reporting live here at the scene
of yet another grisly attack by the fugitive,
Tim "The Titan" Teslow.
And this time,
the victim was his own brother,
star running back for the Gotham Goliaths,
Apollo Teslow.
Commander Kane.
Commander Kane,
any comments on this latest attack?
And what about reports that not even
Batwoman was able to stop Titan?
Batwoman is the reason lunatics like Titan
are on the street in the first place.
We got one man dead
and one of Gotham's most promising athletes
- cut down in his prime.
- So you don't see Batwoman's efforts
to stop Titan as helpful?
I see Batwoman like I see every vigilante,
a threat to the good people of this city.
The Crows and the GCPD
will bring her to justice.
And we will not discriminate between the Bat
and those who aid her, abet her,
or so much as turn on a damn Batlight!
That was Crows Commander Kane with some
pointed words for Batwoman and her followers.
I don't remember tensions like these
since Commissioner Loeb and Batman.
Which begs the question who, if anyone,
can keep Gotham City safe
[TV clicks off]
I'm gonna have to reset your shoulder.
Fair warning, this is gonna hurt a lot.
- [shoulder cracks]
- [grunts]
No comment.
That was Julia.
She saw your dad on the news
- and thinks you should sit this one out.
- You might not have a choice.
I'll need an x-ray to make sure,
but I'm guessing you have
a couple of cracked ribs.
I'll be lucky if it's just a couple.
I've never been up against someone
this strong before.
It was like I was nothing to him.
All the more reason to avoid a rematch.
At least for a few weeks
till you've had time to heal.
I don't have a few weeks.
Titan's on some killing spree
and we have no way of knowing
who he's gonna strike at next.
Actually, maybe we do.
You're not gonna believe this.
That commuter he beheaded on the subway
wasn't just some random guy.
He had a connection to Titan.
He used to be an administrator
at his university's neuro clinic
until he was fired for falsifying
student athletes' brain scans.
Apollo said the game
turned his brother into a monster.
Or the people behind the game.
Where's the rock?
Hidden among 45 stories of anywhere
and a million square feet of possibility.
Our beloved little rock may as well be
a grain of sand along the beach.
So
That's it, then. It's not happening.
It's over. We can leave now.
Or we can walk right through the door
and ask for it.
Hey.
What are you doing?
Everyone knows eyebrows
don't grow themselves.
[Mouse chuckles]
You're making him a face.
You promised me we were gonna kill him.
We will! But today,
he's an integral part of my plan.
And tomorrow, what then?
And the next day, what then?
When does this end?
Why are you pressuring me?
Because we're being hunted, Alice.
Is this rabid obsession with your family
really worth it if we both end up dead?
I suppose it is.
Well, not for me, it's not.
It's over, Alice. I'm leaving.
And where do you imagine going?
Where we've always planned to go.
To the beautiful garden among the bright
flowerbeds and the cool fountains.
You,
out in the world?
Alone?
[laughing]
How would you even survive?
The same way I survived in Arkham
for five years without you visiting me once.
Not on my birthday, or a holiday,
or even just because.
You really think
I can't survive without you?
Alice, between the two of us,
I'm not the one I'm worried about.
You can't leave me all alone.
Then don't make me.
Forget all this.
Come with me.
I would never let you leave me,
my little Mouse.
But we must leave Gotham the right way.
With a party.
[chuckles]
Every season Titan underwent
a mandatory brain scan
to assess his eligibility to play.
And Gotham U claimed this
was his most recent brain scan.
Totally healthy.
But after digging deep
into the neuro clinic records,
thanks to Mary's med school connections.
Technically, it's not a HIPAA violation
if you're not a real doctor.
Turns out this
was his actual brain scan.
Oh, God. All those years of head trauma.
Dorsal posterior insula's
basically shriveled to nothing.
That sounds really bad.
It's the part of the brain that governs pain.
No wonder he didn't feel that Batarang.
They cover it all up and they give you
a big, fat, championship ring for your troubles.
Wow. Interesting.
GU's coach, Donahue, took an early
retirement right before the scandal broke.
All right.
He might be Titan's next victim.
Where are you going?
You can barely stand,
much less take on a literal goliath
who's hella impervious to pain.
Not to mention, the Crows would love to put
your pointy-eared head on a pike.
And what do you expect me to do, hmm?
Stand down?
Just let Titan rampage through Gotham?
[Mary] Well
there is another idea.
But I don't think you're gonna like it.
[police sirens wailing]
Go, go, go!
If you see the Bat, shoot.
Got something behind the light.
Don't shoot!
I'm here on behalf of Batwoman.
[shouting]
Where is she?
Dad, I'm fine!
Everything's okay.
What's going on?
How the hell did she get to you?
Can you just please talk to her?
You just made this way too personal.
- [Batwoman] We need to talk about Titan.
- Which part?
About how he doesn't play by the rules
or care about collateral damage?
I want to team up.
We can take him on together.
What's the matter?
Titan too much for your army of one?
Honestly, yeah. I could use the muscle
and you can use me
because I know how to draw him out.
Oh, like you drew me out
by using my own daughter?
What sort of wannabe hero puts
an innocent girl in front of a firing squad?
Could have blown her damn head off!
- [shouts]
- Everyone off the roof now!
You heard him. Go. Go.
How the hell did she find you?
- She didn't! I found her.
- What are you talking about?
I'm saying this was my idea!
You told me that the Crows wanted
to make over their image.
Why not start by allying yourself
with someone this city actually roots for?
You did this?
I knew I'm one of the only people
who can get through to you!
[sighs]
I believe in her, Dad.
Mary, I said anyone affiliated with her
will be brought to justice.
Okay, then arrest me.
Arrest me for believing in someone
who saves lives
and who stops criminals
and who inspires hope
without charging a penny for it!
I'm your daughter and if I don't believe
in what you're doing,
how can you expect a city of strangers to?
Except the person you believe in
doesn't even have the guts to show her face.
I can't show you my face,
but I can offer you this.
A truce. We partner up,
protect the city together.
Please.
So how do we get him?
I'm at Gotham City Arena with Gotham
University's former head coach Kurt Donahue.
Kurt, what are your thoughts?
If you're listening, Titan,
I'm sorry for thinking the sport
was bigger than the human life.
And I hope you'll come
join me on the 50-yard line
where I can apologize to you in person.
[Alice] It's called a trauma bond exercise.
I just write the thing that anchors us
to our pain so that we can move on.
Look who paid attention in group therapy.
Maybe a little.
This book is our chain.
It locks us to the Caterpillar,
the Queen
that basement cell.
It binds us to every terrible
twisted thing we were forced to endure.
Burning it breaks our attachment
and frees us to move on
which we always intended to do.
Move on.
What happened to us
should never happen to anyone.
But there's no one in the world
I would have rather
gone through it with than you.
Nor I without you.
And I mean this with all of my heart.
I still wanna join you
in the beautiful garden
and smell the seasons in bright flowerbeds
and make a wish in cool fountains.
I wanna meet a man with many hats.
And smile back at the Cheshire cat.
[sobbing] And run with you forever
through our Wonderland.
Alice
No!
What did you do?
You made me choose.
You poisoned me?
Why did you do that?
Because I couldn't let you leave me.
Not you too.
This
This wasn't even real?
[grunting and gasping]
If only pain could turn to ash
with the strike of a match.
But my pain is a part of me,
the way my family is a part of me.
You could never understand
why I need to enact my revenge,
because you've never experienced
true betrayal.
At least not until now.
[Alice crying]
Goodbye, my sweet Mouse.
My brother
my everything.
I'll see you again in Wonderland.
Are we missing the company party
or something?
Where's the commander?
It's all hands on deck
at the arena with Batwoman.
- What did you mean "With Batwoman"?
- They teamed up to bring down Titan.
Two hours ago he said he would arrest
anyone affiliated with her.
Now he's tagging her into the ring?
Something's up.
We need to get there.
Call her and give her the heads-up.
Saying what, exactly?
To watch her six.
[Kin Palo's "Under Attack" playing]
It's the smoke laying low
Before the flame shows
It's the far away light
In the quiet of the night
I don't think this guy is gonna show.
Could that have anything to do
with the Crows lying in wait?
I'm not standing down the welcoming
committee, leave tactical to me.
[cell phone buzzing]
So choose your weapons wise
Uh, Batcave to Batwoman,
Julia just texted
- Yeah, I got it too. I'll be fine.
- Julia seems to think otherwise.
Julia didn't look into my dad's eyes
when she shook his hand, okay?
I'll be fine
ish.
[computer powering down then beeping]
What just happened?
Someone cut the power.
Why are we in the dark?
[man 1] Not sure, commander.
Working on it now.
Under attack
All positions report in.
[man 2] Section 30, clear.
[man 3] Box level, clear.
- [man 4] End zone one[shouting]
- It's him.
[shouting]
Go!
Stop!
Tim, this isn't you!
Apollo told me who you are.
Big brother, used to walk
the neighborhood kids to the bus stop.
Make sure they were safe.
I know that person is still inside you.
I didn't wanna be this.
I know.
[gunfire]
You didn't have to kill him!
What are you doing?
I promised you war.
This is what it looks like.
We're on the same team.
You can't do this.
We're on the same team
Stop! What are you doing?
[Sophie] Is that why you sidelined me today?
If you want to take me off the field
to launch this app, fine.
If you're using it to distract me
while you and everyone else
- are trying to take out Batwoman
- Why would I need to do that, Moore?
Because you would've gone
behind your own team's back
to protect a criminal?
I'm protecting you from being
on the wrong side of this.
What is it about her?
You, now Mary, tell me what I'm missing.
With all due respect, sir, hope.
If it weren't for her,
my wife's killer would still be in Arkham.
Hope is a luxury I don't have.
Thought you two used to be tight.
We are.
At least
we were.
- I thought you called Batwoman to warn her.
- I did.
She didn't listen.
You don't believe me.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm just looking for flaws
because I'm terrified of being
in a relationship with a woman.
[groans] No. I'm pretty much being shady
by design, love.
Okay.
So in one of my many thrilling
and sexy adventures,
I met the wrong person
and proceeded to betray her.
So you're hiding? From who?
Her name is Safiyah and I'll say
no more because I'll only pull you into it.
A sexy and thrilling adventure?
Maybe I want to be pulled in.
I wish it were that simple, love.
I knew I had a target on my back,
I just didn't know its circumference.
These were left at my hotel this morning.
Do you need this?
My thoughts exactly.
I actually pictured myself coming out
to him as Batwoman one day.
I looked him in the eyes and I believed him.
I'm really, really sorry, Kate.
If it means anything to you,
I believed him too.
I always thought when I put that suit on
that nothing could hurt me.
But I was wrong.
His betrayal hurt a million times
more than any of those bullets.
- My dad hates me.
- No. Batwoman.
He hates Batwoman. You, he loves.
He once loved Beth too.
In his mind,
Batwoman is just as crazy as Alice.
He's wrong.
Thank you for having my back today.
To sisters.
To sisters.
Am I interrupting?
Come in.
May I present to you
I'll stick with booze. Thanks.
Wha No, that's not That's kryptonite.
- I figured out how to destroy it.
- Oh, my God. You used a hammer.
Okay, more like 40,000 tons
of compressive force.
- Wayne has access to a hydraulic press.
- Mm-hm.
So just a really expensive hammer.
Yeah, Mary. This is all thanks
to your brilliant hammer idea.
Point being,
this is what's left of the only thing
on Earth that can penetrate the Batsuit.
Okay.
And that is me taking the only weapon
that can kill you off the table.
[Kate grunts]
Before we get too cocky
[Kate sighs]
No more secrets.
Not between us. And not after today.
- Where did you get that?
- The same way Bruce did.
A friend gave it to me for safekeeping
in case she ever lost her way.
And you're just telling us
about it now because
- I didn't think you'd find a way to destroy it.
- Well, we did. So hand it over.
And because I can't.
It's not mine to destroy.
Kate, if that gets into
the wrong hands, it'll kill you.
I promised my friend I would keep it.
And she trusts me.
And until I can talk to her about it,
I need you guys to trust me too.
[knocking on door]
Come.
Sir, thought these might interest you.
Collected them from the arena.
That in particular
is a slug from a Desert Eagle.
Desert Eagle can shoot through anything.
Well, almost anything, sir.
Then we're going to need
to find something stronger.
I must admit, Tommy,
I find you to be one of the most
loathsome men in Gotham.
Vain and uncouth.
Humorless and dull.
I pity any woman who confuses
the buzz of her martini with your charms.
And yet, here you are.
Hmm.
My masterpiece.
What did you do?
I made all your dreams come true.
I look like Bruce Wayne.
You made me Bruce Wayne.
So, my rich, handsome,
beloved Bruce,
I need you to strut through the doors
of Wayne Tower
and get me that shard of kryptonite
from your dear cousin Kate.
Hmm?
[closing theme playing]